The March for Science is dedicated to improve our understanding of how science affects our lives and why scientists need a larger voice in public policy. No politicians will be speaking in DC and at most of the other marches: instead, there will be teach-ins to show us how science needs to be better understood and how it can play a bigger role in our policy debate.

In that spirit, we at Crooked Donald thought we could help by offering some facts of our own.

First, there is a myth that the largest share of our government’s funding for research and development goes to the military. This misunderstanding occurs because of a quirk in government accounting procedures, allowing only the military to use the term “R&D” in budget reports, but in fact, health and medical research takes the lion’s share of federal government R&D and that would still be true even if Trump’s proposed massive budget cuts to health research were passed.

Third, better science can improve how government works—take law enforcement, for example. Despite what you see on television crime shows, law enforcement employs very few people who know science or forensic technologies. The situation is so bad, both the Innocence Project and the National Academy of Sciences have documented how we need immediate improvement in our police forces or false convictions will increase. Sadly, the Trump administration is closing down the one program that will improve law enforcement science.